I'm not Catholic, but I think a better question to get from that analogy would be >Is the scientific method perfect though? Isn't it the result of the same fal

I'm not Catholic, but I think a better question to get from that analogy would be >Is the scientific method perfect though? Isn't it the result of the same fallible human minds that make it's implementation inherently flawed as well? Maybe the scientific method is not perfect, but itself is still open to improvement in fundamental ways. This is more interesting to me than debates about ancient Judaean fig tree parables. But in case you're curious! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursing_the_fig_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursing_the_fig_tree